Re: newbie : I have downloaded jfugue jar file ...now how to install it

From:
Michael Redlich <mpredli@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:50:16 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<46c689fe-9882-45ba-8204-17a3aa23bdc6@d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On Dec 18, 3:15 am, Boris <cybernau...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have downloaded jfugue.jar file from internet , now what to do ?
Clicking on it shows some error "failed to load main-class manifest
attribute " .So how to install it ?
plz help !


Boris:

From what I read on the JFugue web site, jfugue.jar is only used for
the classes you need to write your own program. The following is from
the web site:

import org.jfugue.*;

public class MyMusicApp {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Player player = new Player();
        Pattern pattern = new Pattern("C D E F G A B");
        player.play(pattern);
        System.exit(0); // If using versions lower than Java 5.0
        }
    }

The import statement refers to the classes that you need from the
org.jfugue package which happens to be in the jfugue.jar file. I
assume that the Player and Pattern classes are included in that
package. If you try to compile the above code without including the
jfugue.jar file, you will get a compile-time error. So...

javac -classpath [path]\jufugue.jar MyMusicApp.java
    will compile the application
java -cp [path]\jfugue.jar;. MyMusicApp
    will execute the application

Of course, if you use Ant (http://ant.apache.org/), all of the above
can be automated...

Hope this helps...

Sincerely,

Mike.
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